"Be happy for this moment, this moment is your life."

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."

"Being another character is more interesting than being yourself."

"There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators."

"It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them."

"Reputations are created every day and every minute."

"Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."

"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."